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Having recently moved my 90 year old mother into an apartment, she gave me the
rest of the pictures she had. This included a lot of negatives, some going
back to the 30s...

While going through them, I found these two, which are 110 negatives in very
poor shape.

These are pictures of the Hughes Glomar Explorer, taken sometime in 1972, by
my dad while the ship was still under construction. At the time, both he and I
worked for Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. I was a Stagebuilder (shipwright
carpenters), and he was in electrical facilities. If you check the Sun Ship
Wikipedia page below, the top right of the page shows a magazine cover, and
the building on the left side is where I worked out of as a Stagebuilder. My
locker was up those back stairs, and many was the day we sat and played cards
while eating lunch in that locker room.

At the time of this ship's construction, there were literally "men in black"
running around the yard. Because of this, my dad hid in a tank that had been
placed on the pier, and took these through a hole in the side.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Sh...%26_Drydock_Co.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_Explorer
--
Al McCann
albert(dot)mccann(at)outlook(dot)com

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On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 13:42:29 -0400, Kilgore Trout
wrote:


At the time of this ship's construction, there were literally "men in black"
running around the yard. Because of this, my dad hid in a tank that had been
placed on the pier, and took these through a hole in the side.


Glad the men in black didn't catch him!
Bob

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In article ,
says...

On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 13:42:29 -0400, Kilgore Trout
wrote:


At the time of this ship's construction, there were literally "men in black"
running around the yard. Because of this, my dad hid in a tank that had been
placed on the pier, and took these through a hole in the side.


Glad the men in black didn't catch him!
Bob

We might not have ever seen him again :-)

--
Al McCann
albert(dot)mccann(at)outlook(dot)com

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In article , Kilgore Trout
wrote:

Having recently moved my 90 year old mother into an apartment, she gave me
the
rest of the pictures she had. This included a lot of negatives, some going
back to the 30s...

While going through them, I found these two, which are 110 negatives in very
poor shape.

These are pictures of the Hughes Glomar Explorer, taken sometime in 1972, by
my dad while the ship was still under construction. At the time, both he and
I
worked for Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. I was a Stagebuilder (shipwright
carpenters), and he was in electrical facilities. If you check the Sun Ship
Wikipedia page below, the top right of the page shows a magazine cover, and
the building on the left side is where I worked out of as a Stagebuilder. My
locker was up those back stairs, and many was the day we sat and played cards
while eating lunch in that locker room.

At the time of this ship's construction, there were literally "men in black"
running around the yard. Because of this, my dad hid in a tank that had been
placed on the pier, and took these through a hole in the side.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Sh...%26_Drydock_Co.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_Explorer

How cool is that? Interesting story - and ship.

--
Ed H.